—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

Another international controversy is building between Germany and Turkey over, of all things, a poem. Last month on German TV, the comedian Jan Boehmermann performed a crude poem mocking Turkey's ...

BERLIN — Late-night comedy sketches featuring a German song and a follow-up poem making fun of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have created a diplomatic rift, and left German Chancellor Angela ...

BERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for Turkey's president said Monday that he is seeking a court injunction against the head of one of Germany's biggest publishing houses in an escalating row over a satirical ...

Gunter Grass, Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author, published another poem criticizing Israeli policy. (JTA) — Gunter Grass, Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author, has published another poem ...

BERLIN – A German comedian has lost a court case against Chancellor Angela Merkel's description of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as "deliberately hurtful." Amid ...

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she regrets expressing her personal view that a TV comic's poem about Turkey's president was intentionally offensive. Merkel said Friday that she stood by ...

Ian McMillan explores German poetry after the fall of the Berlin Wall – with two of Germany's most celebrated and groundbreaking poets, Durs Grünbein and Nora Gomringer. Show more Ian McMillan ...

German police are providing protection for the controversial comedian Jan Boehmermann after he performed a crude poem criticizing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on German TV. Investigators are ...